Fresh spiritual dew

 

Someone once asked the celebrated biologist,

Sir Frederick Grant Banting, why he cared so much

about daily Communion. 

“Have you ever reflected,” he answered, “what would happen if the dew did not fall every night?  No plant would develop.  The grass and flowers could not survive the evaporations and the dryness that the day’s heat brings in one way or another.  Their cycle of energies, their natural renewal, the balance of their lymphatic fluids, the very life of plants requires this dew...” 

After a pause, he continued:  “Now my soul is like a little plant.  It is something rather frail that the winds and heat do battle with every day.  So it is necessary that every morning I go get my fresh stock of spiritual dew, by going to Holy Communion.”

Excerpted from Jesus Our Eucharistic Love

Fr Stefano M Manelli, FFI

Banquet of regenerating grace

 

“It overflows, and it is like a furnace, this love of God,

Who, in the banquet of regenerating grace gives unceasingly,

through the ministry of His priests, His own flesh to be eaten, and His own precious blood to be drunk by them who are His own children and the heirs of the kingdom He has promised to them that love Him.”

St. Thomas Aquinas

Clearly Jesus

 

“Jesus has said very clearly:

I am the love to be loved. I am the life to be lived.

I am the joy to be shared. I am the bread to be eaten.

I am the blood to be drunk. I am the truth to be told.

I am the light to be lit. I am the peace to be given.

Jesus is everything.”

Bl. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

nee Albania ~ 1910-1997

Foundress - Missionaries of Charity

Anniversary of Death - Sept. 5

 

 

“Just allow people to see Jesus in you to see how you pray, to see how you lead a pure life,

to see how you deal with your family, to see how much peace there is in your family .

Then you can look straight into their eyes and say, ‘This is the way.’

You speak from life, you speak from experience.” ~ Bl Mother Teresa of Calcutta

 Words to Love by… Mother Teresa (Ave Maria Press: 1983)

 

 

Bl Mother Teresa of Calcutta, ora pro nobis!

Act fearlessly!



"Do nothing without consulting Him in the Tabernacle. 

But then act fearlessly, if you see it is for His honor

and glory, never minding what others may think or say.  Above all,

'cast your care upon the Lord and He shall sustain you', (Ps 54:23). 

Peace and calm in your soul, prayer ever on your lips and a big love

in your heart for Him and His interests, will carry you very far."

 Fr. William Doyle

We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee

 

 

"From the day he became Pope, St Gregory applied himself vigorously to the duties of the Church, appointing overseers to look after its secular affairs so he could devote himself to the celebration of Holy Mass where his homilies on the Gospel and the Eucharist became the talk of Rome.  ...

 

An excerpt of Homily 37: 

    'Not long ago it happened that a man was taken prisoner and carried far away.  Now after he had been a long time kept in the prison without his wife knowing anything about it, she believed him to be dead, and caused every week, on certain days, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to be offered for him.  After a long time had elapsed the man returned home, and related to his astonished wife that on certain days of the week the chains that bound him became loose; in this way he succeeded at length in making his escape.  Now when his wife inquired on which days of the week this wonder took place, she discovered that the days on which his chains became loose were those upon which the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was offered for him.'

 

Because he so loved the solemn celebration of the Eucharist, St Gregory devoted himself to compiling the Antiphonary - containing the chants of the Church used during the liturgy (today called by his name, Gregorian Chant) - and setting up the foundation for the Schola Cantorum, Rome's famous training school for choristers.

 

St Gregory never rested and wore himself down almost to a skeleton.  Even as he lay dying, he directed the affairs of the Church and continued his spiritual writing." 

 

Excerpt from My Daily Eucharist (Joan Carter McHugh)

 

 

Pope St Gregory the Great

Italy ~ 540-604

Doctor of the Church

 

  

“It is not by faith that you will come to know [God] but by love;

not by mere conviction, but by action.”~ St Gregory the Great

 

Ste Gregory, ora pro nobis!

 

Praise our Lord with Gregorian chant today!